The ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain.
AL LEWISOscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?
More Al Lewis Quotes
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If anything I consider myself an anarchist.
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What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
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As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.
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You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
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I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there’s no audience. TV, there’s no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it’s a silent response.
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The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world – right after the Civil War.
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The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
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I know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.
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Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn’t read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
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If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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Because if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
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Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I’d take them all to dinner. All runaways.
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My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
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I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
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